Team News Riveting
Goa, December 10
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday landed in Goa only to get “resignation” reception from the party leaders.
A group of Congress leaders and workers as quit the party before she landed in Goa to launch the campaign for assembly elections in the state. She interacted with youths as well as tribal Women in Morpirla village of Goa.
A group of Congress leaders from the Porvorim assembly constituency, having the support of Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte, quit the party today. Leaders claimed that the Congress leadership was not serious to contest Goa assembly polls scheduled the next year.
Gupesh Naik, a former zilla panchayat member who is leading the Porvorim group, told the media that the Congress party has not shown seriousness to contest upcoming Goa elections. He alleged that party has become a non-starter due to the attitude of some of its leaders.
Senior Congress leader from Curtorim of South Goa, Moreno Rebelo also resigned from the post of secretary of state unit as well as from the primary membership of the party. Rebelo in his resignation letter addressed to Goa Congress chief Girish Chodankar questioned the promotion of Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco as working president of the party.
Rebelo said that Reginaldo never participated in any party activity for the last four-and-half years. He abused the party leaders and also worked against the official party candidate of Curtorim and Raia in the recently held Zilla Panchayat election. Besides, Reginaldo was declared as a party candidate by senior leaders during a recently held convention.
Congress is facing exodus of its leaders in Goa where Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is welcoming them in its fold as Bengal’s ruling party is projecting itself as an alternate of grand-old party in the coastal state.
